Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council

Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 11, 1975 Decided May 24, 1976
Full case name	Virginia State Board of Pharmacy, et al. v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Incorporated, et al.
Citations	425 U.S. 748 (more) 96 S. Ct. 1817; 48 L. Ed. 2d 346; 1976 U.S. LEXIS 55; 1976-1 Trade Cas. (CCH) ¶ 60,930; 1 Media L. Rep. 1930
Case history
Prior	Va. Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. v. State Bd. of Pharmacy, 373 F. Supp. 683 (E.D. Va. 1974); probable jurisdiction noted, 420 U.S. 971 (1975).
Holding
States cannot limit consumer access to information about prescription drug prices.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Blackmun, joined by Burger, Brennan, Stewart, White, Marshall, Powell
Concurrence	Burger
Concurrence	Stewart
Dissent	Rehnquist
Stevens took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I

Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, 425 U.S. 748 (1976), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that a state could not limit pharmacists' right to provide information about prescription drug prices.^[1] This was an important case in determining the application of the First Amendment to commercial speech.